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Lincoln Tribute Poster

AMPAS and BAFTA Get On The Tribute Poster Bandwagon

Ever since they first started appearing back in the mid-2000’s, I’ve been a big fan of what has come to be known as “tribute posters”. The trend seems to have been started by the Mondo Gallery in Austin Texas, a subsidiary of Alamo Drafthouse, the independent spirited cinema…

Focus Finds Unique Way To Prop Up Marketing For “Anna Karenina”

Thirteen years ago I attended a press junket for the film “Anna and the King” and was given what turned out to be a very special gift. Directed by Andy Tennant, the film is set in Siam during the 1860s and tells the story of how King Mongkut (played by Chow Yun-Fat) falls in loveRead Mor…

Man Booker Prize Makes Its Big Screen Debut

[youtube width=”560″ height=”315″]http://youtu.be/T84ahPgVOJQ[/youtube] The Man Booker Prize for Fiction and Picturehouse Entertainment are teaming up on what seems to be a novel idea (pun intended). Literally (additional pun intended). Picturehouse will broadcast readings fr…

Sundance Sunset Cinema

Sundance Cinemas Brings Its Art House Mentality To Los Angeles

The opening of the first Sundance Cinemas in Los Angeles seems a perfect way to bring summer to a close. The new theatre opened in the space once occupied by the Sunset 5 which Laemmle Theatres operated for two decades before it was shuttered last December. The new venue has been named Sundance Suns…

Arts Alliance Rethinks Its Alternative Content Strategy

How hard is it to find success with alternative content? The answer is; very. So many variables have to fall perfectly in place to find success, much less profit. No matter whether it’s sports, concerts or cultural events, there are rights clearances to obtain, theaters to secure and screening…

Mexico’s Cinepolis Heads North Of The Border

Not sure how I missed this. None of the gazillion Google alerts I’ve set up to track all things exhibition and distribution informed me that National Public Radio broadcast a story on Cinépolis back on August 12th. Nor did I hear the piece on Morning Edition, the NPR program my alarm clock bla…

Direct From Broadway

Four Broadway Musicals Find New Life In Cinemas

After first being announced at CineEurope in Amsterdam last June, more details are emerging about the Direct From Broadway, an alternative content series aiming to bring musicals from The Great White Way to movie theaters around the world. New York based Broadway Worldwide, whose production of the B…

Super 8 Twitter Promoted Trend

Paramount’s Unique “Super 8” Twitter Promotion

Late last Thursday my Twitter list of entertainment journalists lit up with posts about “Super 8“. It was the evening of the all-media screening Los Angeles and as soon as the credits rolled journalists and critics began praising the film on Twitter. That kind of buzz can’t be boug…

Texas Instruments DLP

Japanese Earthquake May Not Impact The D-Cinema Supply Chain

Shortly after the 8.9-magnitude earthquake occurred off the coast of Japan on March 11th numerous rumors and speculation have swirled around the exhibition industry over its impact on the availability of digital cinema equipment. In part, this was spurred on by Texas Instruments reporting that their…

CinemaCon 2011: Dolby Lines Up New Releases For 7.1 Surround Sound

Dolby is using CinemaCon to announce a slate of new titles that will be released with Dolby Surround 7.1 audio. Most of the films are highly anticipated summer tentpole releases and include Walt Disney Studios “Pirates of the Carribbean: On Stranger Tides”, DreamWorks Animation’s…